Membership
- Guy Debord (1931–1994) (generally using the name ‘Guy-Ernest’ during this period).
- Gil J. Wolman (1929–1995). Excluded 1957.
- Michèle Bernstein (1932–). Joined 1954.
- Alexander Trocchi (1925–1984). Joined 1955.
- Hadj Mohamed Dahou. Joined 1953.
- Ivan Chtcheglov (1933–98) (known as "Gilles Ivain"). Excluded 1954.
- Serge Berna (1925?–?). Excluded 1953.
- Patrick Straram (1934–84). Joined 1953, quit 1954.
- Jean-Michel Mension. (1934–2006). Excluded 1954.
- Jean-Louis Brau (1930–?) (known as "Bull Dog Brau"). Excluded 1953.
Several others also passed through the LI during its five years of existence, including André-Frank Conord, Jacques Fillon, Abdelhafid Khatib, Henry de Béarn and Gaëtan M. Langlais. In addition, the central members (almost all of them men), would sometimes include their girlfriends' names (usually first names only) among the signatories to their texts. Worthy of special mention among these girlfriends is Eliane Papaï (1935–?). An alumna of the same Auteuil orphanage the letterists had attempted to liberate, she was first the girlfriend of Debord, then the wife of Mension, and finally the wife of Brau. Debord recalled her fondly in many of his later films and writings, and she herself (as Eliane Brau) produced a book on the Situationists in 1968, Le situationnisme ou la nouvelle internationale.
Jean-Louis Brau, Gil Wolman and François Dufrêne founded a Second Letterist International (D.I.L., Deuxième Internationale Lettriste) in 1964. The New Lettrist International was founded more recently and is independent of (though inspired by) the earlier group.
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